Sacramento Valley Biographies
HARRY L. HUSTON
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, May 2009.
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A promising young attorney and one who stands exceptionally high
in the regard of his fellow townsmen, Harry L. Huston has already achieved a
success which places his name among the legal lights of Woodland. A native
son of the state, he was born in Woodland, August 18, 1879, both his father
and grandfather being well-known pioneers of Yolo county. The father, Walter
S. Hutson, was born in Boone county, Mo., October 2, 1830, and came to
California in 1849. For more complete details concerning the head of this
family refer to the sketch of Arthur C. Hutson, which appears on another
page of this work.
In Woodland, Harry L. Hutson was reared to manhood, receiving his
education in the public schools and Hesperian College, after which he
entered the law office of Charles W. Thomas and for some time gave himself
up to a conscientious study of his chosen profession. September 14, 1900, he
was admitted to the bar with honors, when he opened an office at the corner
of Main and Second streets, where he has since been located. Although
numbered among the most youthful of the legal fraternity of Woodland he has
already built up a practice which is lucrative and gives promise of a future
success which shall place him in the front ranks of his profession in Yolo
county. He has proven his ability to handle cases which are generally placed
in the hands of more experienced lawyers; has shown himself to be energetic
and painstaking; and as a counselor-at-law few if any men of his age exceed
him. The popularity which is accorded him as a citizen is an evidence of his
ability, as well as the possession of those qualities which have given him a
position in the social life of the community. Fraternally he is identified
with the Masonic order and the Native Sons, and politically is a stanch
Democrat, and has always been active in the promotion of the principles he
endorses. In January, 1905, he assumed the duties of district attorney of
Yolo county.
"History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the
Sacramento Valley, Cal.," J. M. Guinn, The Chapman Publishing Company,
Chicago, 1906, Page 510.